EBK UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS
EBK UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS
11th Edition
ISBN: 8220102809673
Author: Nickels
Publisher: YUZU
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Chapter 9, Problem 1CT
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To think critically about: Whether the unemployment or underemployment rate will increase due to increase of automation in the manufacturing sector.

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The employment and underemployment is a situation in which a person wanted to be employed person but not employed in the current situation.

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The reasons due to which unemployment rate increase in Country U is explained below:

  • In Country U, the maximum number human being is replaced with the automation in the manufacturing sector. Since, these works as a cheap labor in the manufacturing sector and compete with the other country labor. Either it increases the unemployment in the united states, but it increases the production more than the human which is profitable for the company.
  • The unemployment or underemployment rate increases because robots produce the more product than the human being with tired.
  • According to the Country U report, 80% of the population are in the service sector and 19% are involved in the manufacturing sector and 1% in the agriculture sector. Out of these, in the manufacture sector one third of people will be unemployed till 2030 due to the automation.
Conclusion

Thus, it can be said that if human beings are replaced with robots, the consequence of it will be that human being will unemployed.

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